Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt
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Sir Eustace Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (19 January 1902 – 21 November 1971) was a British baronet.
Educated at Eton College, in 1951 he succeeded his father, Sir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet (1868-1951). He was also a distant cousin of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1956 and was Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers during the 1960s.
On 1 June 1926, he married Pamela Gladstone, the younger daughter of William Buckley Gladstone, of Moor Town House, Ringwood, Hampshire, at St Margaret's, Westminster. See wedding photograph]. Their daughter Philippa married Nigel Nicolson.
He was succeeded by his son, Sir (John) Jeremy Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 3rd Baronet (1927-1988).
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